GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term technology transfer and license agreement with Kazakhstan’s JSC ZKMK for servicing of GE’s fleet of oil and gas turbomachinery in Central Asia. Under the deal, ZKMK will perform repair services on GE’s gas turbines and centrifugal compressors installed in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan.
GE will provide technical training and services and ZKMK will modify its Uralsk manufacturing facility to work on GE equipment in the region, which includes more than 50 gas turbines and 40 centrifugal compressors, GE said.
In the future, the pair plans to finalize a deal to produce, assemble, supply, and service the GE10/2 11-plus megawatt range of gas turbines in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, the company said.
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